systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 11:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:45:33AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > GENERAL SANITY
> > > > - Booting a system shall achieve a similar result as booting in upstart:
> > > > -- The same set of services will be started.
> > >
> > > I don't think this is a requirement on systemd, really. If we make
> > > changes to the default system configuration to not include a service in
> > > F14 that was included in F13, that is not a systemd problem. So, I think
> > > what you really mean here is: systemd will start all services that are
> > > configured to be included in the default install (and dependencies), but
> > > no others.
> >
> > If we're still including upstart as a fallback option, I think it's
>
> The intent is not to do so in the final release, AIUI. We're only
> keeping it around during pre-release, so that if we decide we need to
> fall back to upstart for final release, it's easy to do. As far as I
> know, the plan is to decide later (presumably after beta) which one
> we're going with, and dump the other.
>

So the alpha and beta will be tested in a configuration that the final
release will not?

	-Mike